wozniacki (u/wozniacki)

wozniacki commented on An Efilist Just Bombed a Fertility Clinic. Was This Bound to Happen? default.blog/p/an-efilist... · Posted by u/starkparker

skissane · 9 months ago

If normies don't procreate, then the non-normies will – e.g. high TFR ultra-conservative religious minorities such as the Amish, ultra-Orthodox Jews, traditionalist Catholics, quiverfull Evangelicals, Salafists, Velayat-e Faqih Shi'a, etc

You may eventually find that the normies dwindle and begin to die out, while the non-normies grow and spread and spread – those non-normies may eventually become the new normies

wozniacki · 9 months ago

This.

This needs to be repeated early and repeated often no matter what non-abnormal ideology you subscribe to. In as many words.

If you consider yourself a kind, decent & some what enlightened person and you do not procreate, in all likelihood the unkind or less kind people will do the procreating on your behalf. Mind you I did not even use the word tolerant which implies some measure of altruism; I'm merely saying kind & decent.

I do not know why people much older than us do not repeat this mantra more often.

I do not understand what could belie such intransigence.

What is so offensive about saying that line?

Say it early say it often.

wozniacki commented on When Americana doesn't mean American deeprootsmag.org/2017/09/... · Posted by u/tomrod

spamizbad · 9 months ago

Not sure if Canadians are aware of this, but Canada does two things really well:

1) Developing its own domestic artists/musicians, to a much greater degree than the US (eg https://www.factor.ca/)

2) Greatly restricting smaller foreign acts (especially from the US) from performing in Canada for commercial purposes

Yes, point #2 also applies to the US, but it's not enforced. But if you cross into Canada with musical instruments, they'll put the fear of God into you.

This is largely why the phenomena you describe exists: artists can develop within their domestic cocoon, without being crowded-out by Americans, and then tour their larger, wealthier neighbor to greatly expand their profile virtually risk-free.

wozniacki · 9 months ago

  2) Greatly restricting smaller 
  foreign acts (especially from   
  the US) from performing in
  Canada for commercial purposes

  Yes, point #2 also applies to
  the US, but it's not enforced.
  But if you cross into Canada
  with musical instruments,
  they'll put the fear of God into
  you.

This almost never has the intended effect of producing world class homegrown musical or cinema acts. Like almost a 100% failure rate especially when theres a shared language.

Lots of countries have this quota system where they try to artificially force feed homegrown music, tv shows and movies and it never works.

People always gravitate to the larger American sphere because it doesnt have such restrictions in place. They dont work anyway.

When I first saw Matteo Garrone's Gomorrah (2008) it was so fresh and un-Hollywood like in the presentation of the raw violence and vice, that it stunned me. I still cant stand most PG-fied and Disney-fied American films.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gomorrah_(film)

Gomorra (2008) Official HD Trailer [1080p]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezYyxBZ7Ee0

wozniacki commented on The Ozempocalypse Is Nigh astralcodexten.com/p/the-... · Posted by u/impish9208

unsnap_biceps · a year ago

Compounding pharmacies existed before Ozempic and their entire business model is producing custom drugs at reasonable prices. For Ozempic, they order the GLP-1 peptides from a large Pharma company and then mix it to order with bacteriostatic water and any other additives. Mine includes a B-12 compound that is attempting to help with the weight loss. They are highly regulated and require trained and licensed employees. The compounding pharmacies I don't trust are the ones that only started to do Ozempic and nothing else. But I do trust my local one. They've made me medication for my animals for decades now.

wozniacki · a year ago

Is there a compounding pharmacy aggregator online youve found trustworthy?

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smusamashah · a year ago

There was another website which let you find movie quotes. You search for quote and it brought up small clip where characters are saying that thing you searched for. Had very similar UI, can't find it. Edit: probably https://clip.cafe/ there are few others too

There is another one which is like a Netflix of subplots extracted from movies. I remember it had lots from Rick and Morty. Because Rick and morty keeps bringing up random subplots never to discuss ever again.

There is another website which is a gif database of awesome shots from movies etc. It's like a reference database of camera work.

Will list when I find these urls.

wozniacki · a year ago

  another website which is a gif database of awesome shots from movies etc.
  It's like a reference database of camera work.

Is it https://eyecannndy.com/ ? Or a different one ?

wozniacki commented on European word translator: an interactive map ukdataexplorer.com/europe... · Posted by u/gnabgib

wozniacki · a year ago

Such a neat little tool! I shall use it and share it. Clever idea using the map to simultaneously display words. Small feature but hugely piques the interest of the user.

wozniacki commented on Bop Spotter walzr.com/bop-spotter... · Posted by u/walz

worstspotgain · a year ago

It involves a massive increase in housing prices, primarily brought about by artificial supply restrictions, that results in unintentional displacement. The reason the Mission is still variegated is rent control, along with various forms of affordable housing, housesharing, master tenant slumlords, SROs, extended family arrangements, etc. It's a pretty unique and amazing place really.

wozniacki · a year ago

Yeah I'm sure handshake politics goes a long way in these neighborhoods often to the detriment of the unsuspecting, unconnected and un-special-interest-group attached renters and owners.

[1]

Protesters Gather at Google Lawyer’s Apartments

https://missionlocal.org/2014/04/protesters-gather-at-google...

wozniacki commented on Bop Spotter walzr.com/bop-spotter... · Posted by u/walz

motohagiography · a year ago

Nice. there's a selection bias as the people who play music loud enough to be heard from their cars and several genres there just don't overlap at all.

if we're acknowledging that the music played from cars is neighbourhood vibe, it raises the question of whether they are interfering with the neighbourhood as well.

wozniacki · a year ago

I was waiting for someone to sneak in a anti-car angle into this and presto what have you ! Haha

wozniacki commented on Tupperware files for bankruptcy as its colorful containers lose relevance reuters.com/business/reta... · Posted by u/ivewonyoung

wozniacki · a year ago

While we are on the subject, does anyone know of a super high quality repeatedly microwave-able line of LIGHT and sturdy storageware?

wozniacki commented on The joy of reading books you don't understand reactormag.com/the-joy-of... · Posted by u/speckx

renewiltord · 2 years ago

You'll see this often on the Internet: proof? Proof? Citation? Boy, no one's going to do any work for you. If you believe the wrong thing, the consequences are your own.

In fact, only people with no better use for their time will spend their time teaching you. This means you're being taught only by people whose time is worthless or for whom it is useful for you to believe in something.

If you're not paying for the knowledge, you're not the customer, you're the product. I never elucidate for those beneath me in understanding. I only discuss with peers.

Perhaps the only capable person I know who does different is Taleb but his pleasure appears to be in calling someone "imbecile" after proving them wrong.

wozniacki · 2 years ago

I was waiting the whole time I read this to find a /s somewhere. Anywhere. Yikes.

wozniacki commented on The joy of reading books you don't understand reactormag.com/the-joy-of... · Posted by u/speckx

wozniacki · 2 years ago

I'm dismayed that no one so far has brought up a point that's begging to be made in these sorts of things.

While the point of the article has _some_ merit, there's also another equally valid contrary argument to be made.

Just because a book - however storied & fabled - exists out there, does not mean that you should strive to find some meaning, import or significant cogitable thought when one is not clearly and immediately present.

There's a whole industry of writers that exist to exclusively furnish meaning to the lofty thoughts of some distinguished authors, that that was simply never meant or not present in the authors own words. Sometimes the authors themselves invite and regale in this kind of festive chicanery. Sometimes not. But this sort of thing - far more than useful or warranted - does exist.

In other words some works of writing often fiction but not necessarily are just elaborate exercises in getting away with balderdash.

It pays to remember the enterprise of getting published in the past has not always been equitable as is the case today.

A virtual nobody off the street couldn't expect to even get his manuscript read by a publishing house, much less get published even for a limited run. So if you were already reputed or privileged or had the blessings of a wealthy house of patrons who bankrolled your previous works, you were more widely published and translated.

In other words far too many mediocre works of the past still get top billing, than they rightly deserve largely because no one called out their bullshit.

Yes, sometimes if you don't understand the author that is because the author never had the intentions of being understood in the first place or did not have much to say of value or import, however fleeting or ethereal or unyielding to lucid language, the authors thoughts were.

HN should buck this trend and not join in adulation.